Topics Started by happy camper

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Do you hate dressing up?
by Nosferatu in
1. jw
2. friends
i can't stand wearing suits for anything.

i wore them so much while i was a jw that i prefer to never wear another one as long as i live.

hell, i wore jeans at my wedding!.
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JW young people...on the move...to where?
by Gill in
1. jw
2. friends
my experience as a jw teenager was total repression and control from my parents and i know that the majority of my friends at that age in the congregations suffered the same.. now...what's happening?!.

i come home and find a regular full time pioneer smooching with my non jw son on the sofa.. i"m reliably told that jw youngsters are in the local pub after each meeting and have to be thrown out at chuck out time.. they seem to behave in a far worse way that some non bible believing youngsters that i know.. are they finally feeling their feet and the wtbts due a huge exodus in the next few years?.

i'm slightly embarrassed at the behaviour of some of these youngsters when i'm told what they've been seen getting up to.. or am i just getting old?
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I can't get to grips with being shunned
by chuckyy in
1. jw
2. experiences
my wife and i have been disassociated for about 2 months now.

every day in our small town we are being shunned by former friends.

one in particular annoyed me today.
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Surprise day/family day
by brutusmaximus in
1. jw
2. friends
did you have the above instead of xmas?.

we did as a family with about 16 going to it and giving gifts normally feb time.

now though we have been banned from going as we had xmas this year and you can't have both it would seem.
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DO YOU KNOW THE KINGDOM SONG WORDS?????????????
by vitty in
1. jw
2. friends
after being in the org for 20 years, being regular at every meeting.

i must have sung the songs hundreds of times, but i cant sing the first line of any song off by heart..

i asked my husband, kids if they could, they also cant.. can you?.
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Chauvanism or Chivalry?
by stillajwexelder in
1. jw
2. friends
over the years i have become less of male chauvanist pig and much more chivalrous - my wife says she as a woman likes men to be men and hold doors open for her and stand up on an airport shuttle bus etc .

if there are no seats left.

to me the wtbts is very chauvanistic and not very chivalrous.
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What was your favorite thing about service?
by Dustin in
1. jw
2. friends
i used to love break time.

especially if it was afternoon service, and we stopped at taco bell.

i used to be damn good at eating tacos in the car without spilling anything.
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? Need fellowship with ex-Dubs . Is there a WS by geographical location ?
by disciple in
1. jw
2. friends
exez,.

i have managed to meet up with 3 ex w in houston tx and through the grapevine have heard there are at least 150 active in houston area .... any way you know of to start bringing those together.

is there a message or post board that is primarily geographical in nature?
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How do you feel about.....
by bagpuss in
1. jw
2. friends
going back to a kingdom hall?.

recently i've had a couple of visits from jws while i was at work.

each time they left a message that the co was going to be visiting this week and that it would be good if i went to the meeting.. i was really surprised at the strong reaction i had to the thought of going to a meeting again.
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Do you have a better career now that you're out?
by wanderlustguy in
1. jw
2. friends
just dawned on me that i couldn't do my job if not for leaving.

i'm a director of marketing for a telecom company and travel the country constantly, different city and state every three months or so.

part of the job is "having" to take people out for drinks and dinner, etc all the time.